Few controls on items confiscated from passengers: report

Why do West Jet employees, or owners as they like to call themselves, look so happy, smile a lot and tell all those whacky jokes?
We may have found the secret.
There are "many airport sites where alcohol is apparently being disposed of by service providers without a witness present and without any form of record of documents maintained," according to the report by the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CAT)
"Questionable or non-existent" documentation or controls at most airports undermine the "public expectation that any item that is surrendered, abandoned or forfeited at screening checkpoints is actually being disposed of and not converted to the use of others."The review also notes that in cases where screening officers do pour confiscated alcohol down the drain, "some sites utilize bottle recycling to raise funds for the screening officer's local coffee fund."There are "very few basic controls in place" and "considerable inconsistency" for the handling and disposing of items confiscated from passengers at airport checkpoints across the country, the federal agency charged with aviation security admits in a confidential report.
So the next time your flight attendant appears just a little too happy and those crazy jokes may be just a little too frequent, well it may be that little bit of booze you were failed to get home.The report, completed a year after CATSA determined it needed to "take ownership of the issue," notes that Transport Canada has "no plans" to bring in regulations to address the issue and the existing legislation is "silent" on the disposal of confiscated objects except for dangerous goods.
Some examples
On a West Jet Flight with a very “senior” flight attendant crew, the pilot said, “Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve reached cruising altitude and will be turning down the cabin lights. This is for your comfort and to enhance the appearance of your flight attendants.
”Heard on West Jet Airlines just after a very hard landing in Edmonton; The flight attendant came on the intercom and said, “That was quite a bump, and I know what y’all are thinking. I’m here to tell you it wasn’t the airline’s fault, it wasn’t the pilot’s fault, it wasn’t the flight attendant’s fault, it was the asphalt.”

A plane was taking off from the Winnipeg airport. After it reached a comfortable cruising altitude, the captain made an announcement over the intercom, “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Welcome to Flight Number 293, nonstop from Winnipeg to Montreal. The weather ahead is good and, therefore, we should have a smooth and uneventful flight. Now sit back and relax.. OH, MY GOD!”
Silence followed, and after a few minutes, the captain came back on the intercom and said, “Ladies and Gentlemen, I am so sorry if I scared you earlier. While I was talking to you, the flight attendant accidentally spilled a cup of hot coffee on my lap. You should see the front of my pants!” A passenger yelled: “That’s nothing. You should see the back of mine!”